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The earthquake occurred as a result of oblique-reverse faulting on an 80 km (50 mi) section of the Enriquillo–Plantain Garden fault zone, [20] 125 km (78 mi; 67 nmi) west of the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince, consistent with its location and the observed focal mechanism. It had an estimated hypocentral depth of 10.0 km (6.2 mi). [1]
Some of the earthquakes in Haiti have been very destructive to the country. The widespread damage and high-number of casualties of events in 2010 and 2021 can be partially blamed on the fact that most of the population in Haiti resides in structures that are vulnerable to earthquake shaking, in which they are made of stone and concrete.
The 2021 Haiti earthquake was the largest to strike the country since the 1842 Cap-Haïtien earthquake. More than 138,000 buildings were damaged or destroyed, most of them in Les Cayes and Nippes. 2,248 people were killed, 12,763 others were injured and 329 people remained missing. It is the deadliest earthquake of 2021. [338] 2,248 12,763 16 [339]
The 7.2-magnitude earthquake has left Haiti "on its knees," Prime Minister Ariel Henry said this week as the Civil Protection Agency raised the death toll above 2,000. As the island nation works ...
The magnitude 7.2 earthquake quake struck 8 km (5 miles) from the town of Petit Trou de Nippes, about 150 km west of the capital Port-au-Prince, at a depth of 10 km, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
The 7.2-magnitude earthquake that hit Haiti on Saturday has affected about ... brought by tropical storm Grace hits Haitians just after a 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck Haiti on Aug. 17, 2021, in ...
2021-08-14: Haiti: 7.2 M w: ... Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America ... Earthquake and Tsunami Monitoring in the Northeast Caribbean, IRIS Earthquake ...
A magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince in 1770. The 1907 Kingston earthquake damaged every building in Kingston, Jamaica. [1] The 2010 magnitude 7.0 earthquake occurred near Port-au-Prince along blind thrust faults associated with this fault zone. [5] [6] The 2021 Haiti earthquake (magnitude 7.2) struck Haiti's ...